Michael Bates: December 2012 Archives
Weight On Me - Weighted Blankets
Blankets made heavier, but not hotter, with polypropylene pellets. Supposed to help release seratonin, assist relaxation and restful sleep. Used in therapy with stress, anxiety, PTSD, and various sensory processing disorders. Blankets are sold at cost, as a ministry to those who need them.
For gardeners seeking heirloom, non-GM seeds.
Buzzfeed: 27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012
Mind-controlled robotic arms, silk stronger than steel, invisibility cloak, artificial leaves, Google goggles, meandering planets.
Ballot - Redesign Metro Map Contest - Greater Greater Washington
Lots of tradeoffs involved in making a readable, useful map of a subway system -- depicting the schematic relationships between lines and stations, depicting relationships with the above-ground street network and landmarks, depicting distance while rendering congested areas with clarity. Here are 20 different approaches to redrawing the Washington Metro map. Vote for your favorites!
Believing God: Twelve Biblical Promises Christians Struggle to Accept : Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr.
Do we really believe the promises God gives us in His word? Do we behave as if they're true? Read the intro and sample chapter (on 2 Tim 3:16-17) on the publisher's website.
Safeway has extensively remodeled its store near Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto, but managed to maintain the store's footprint and most of its structure.
Click this link for a Google Maps view of the Berkeley Safeway before and after -- the aerial view is before, the satellite view is after.
And after 7 years, Oakland has greenlighted a replacement for the College and Claremont Safeway in the Rockridge neighborhood. It has parking on the roof and does a nice job of filling in an underused corner.
Memories of Cranford - Francis Frith
A website devoted to geographically linked memories, maps, and photos for the United Kingdom. This particular page has to do with the village of Cranford, in Hounslow, Middlesex, just northeast of Heathrow Airport. In 1989, I stayed five weeks at the Berkeley Arms Hotel, just west of the pub, while working on a maintenance training simulator at the British Airways facility at Viscount House near Hatton Cross tube station. Comedian Tony Hancock's ashes were scattered just outside the churchyard of St. Dunstan's nearby.
Wired.com: Mesmerizing Visualizations Show Mass-Transit Patterns of Major Cities
GTFS data -- the data transit companies provide to Google for use with Google Maps transit routing -- is animated to show travel patterns in several major cities over the course of the day. Beautiful and fascinating.
BBC TV: DIRECT TELEVISION
from ALEXANDRA PALACE
The history of BBC Television from the production point of view, from its beginnings in 1936 at its first studios in Alexandra Palace north of London, with particular focus on the years 1952-1963.
